You can't learn pathos or profundity.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

Let every foot have its own shoe.